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When Plato wrote his famous Parable of the Cave only such real hindrances of the discovery that could mainly be reduced to non-human factors were considered. These constraints of discovery result from the limitedness of our senses. We simply cannot make our eyes look into the atom or into the far cosmos.
The greatest folly of a considerable number of philosophers is an idea which can be described with the following sentence: thinking does not have to comply with the reality but the reality has to comply with thinking. This is how Kant put the logical connections at the top of his ideas that required thinking. He thus understood logic as a law that nature has to obey.
This is the point after which all further thinking goes wrong in the cognizance. From there on all awkward or not suitable facts are being ignored. It is just like in politics. One turns a blind eye even on the grotesque inconsistencies. One always has the excuse that everything is only a model and therefore only a limited copy of nature. In doing so, the inconsistencies between the existing models are not recognized.
Another defect of physics, that has to do with the above said, concerns the priority of existence and essence. Up until the emergence of Einstein’s physics, existence took priority over essence. That means: before I describe an object and assign qualities to it, its existence must be guaranteed. Existence means that something exists. Essence describes what the existent object is made of. Something that doesn’t exist does not have any consistence, no quality.
Kant, that great demolisher, thought he would be able to imagine a space without objects, however not objects without any space. This absurd idea is obviously still around. So one can just read this exact statement in Wittgenstein’s texts, and obviously the physics did not distance itself from these ideas up to now.
Modern physics solved this question so that it defines space as a mix between material existent objects and projected images of human ideas. It would like to make us believe that this construction represents the only possible version of physical space. It is certainly helpful in this case if the different constructions for the space are presented.
Kant ignores the topic space in his texts which shows that space was already in former times not only accepted as existent, but one almost classified its existence as mandatory. That does not necessarily need to be expected. Because as long as I examine objects with experimental equipment and the apparatus simulates the space, I do not catch sight of the space at all.
As the idea of the static light ether was now refuted, one did not draw the only correct conclusion, which is that the motion of the light ether is obviously connected to the masses in the surrounding area. But instead of drawing this conclusion, space as a physical figure was abolished. Maybe not completely. One kept on talking of space. The word, however, was understood in a more mathematical way. Therefore not space was abolished. The question of what space represented was abandoned.
It gets even worse. Because if one wants to save the idea of the inertial frames for the definition of the physical space, only the connection of these systems with the involved masses are a possibility. In this case these are the earth and the missile which starts from earth. To be exact, one would also have to consider the systems of the planets the missile passes.
The only possibility remaining is to think of space as being built by corpuscles. Since a static space was refuted by the Michelson-experiment, only a corpuscle-system coupled to the present masses comes is in the run for this. The construction of this space is described in a later chapter.
Einstein’s constructions are based on the thought that space can be divided into infinitely small sections. This idea, however, collides with the condition of existence for physical objects. Basically it must therefore be assumed that physical objects including space are formed discontinuously.
Given that a mathematics student proceeds to the fifth semester with a clean record they would now feel ambitious to become acquainted with the theoretic physics. They would believe that they will be somehow up to the standards. They would therefore sit down in one of the provided seats and would be content with themselves and the science. This state will be short-lived. It will be destroyed thoroughly in the first five minutes of the lecture.
Last update: 01.05.2009
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